Beautiful Antique Handmade Tin Dipper acrobat toy I presume losing the lower

I presume losing the lower half of one leg along the way

as the manner and decoration reminds me very much of antique Japanese wooden nesting eggs and horse racing games inside treen boxes I've found on a few occasions

" I have to think with 100+ years on him

with hinges on the backside of each sweetly cutout bird (three facing one direction

hand-carved black wheels that rotate smoothly

Beautiful Antique Handmade Tin Dipper acrobat toy I presume losing the lowerA very tender and poetic feeling antique tin dipper, which I believe would have been used for scooping water, and likely as a drinking cup too, and may have been used as a ladle of sorts for most everything else as well. I find the irregular handmade form of it very lovely, with folded over tin around the lip and at the edges of handle, and then best of all that arch of wire at the end of the handle for hanging. 9 7 8" l. Bowl is 2 7 8" in diameter x